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Question

partitoned ide hard drive used as slave cant see

Apr 16, 2011 4:45AM PDT

i have an acer aspire m1201 running a hitachi 80 gig sata hard drive partitoned as the master and trying to hook up seagate ata model st3400168 as a slave to retrieve pitures the seagate drive is partitoned into 8 gig and 32 gigs but i cant see 32 gig partiton only 8 gig the 8 gig was th boot drive on the seagate

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Clarification Request
What can't see this partition
Apr 16, 2011 4:50AM PDT

The BIOS or the OS?

The BIOS would not recognise any partitions in a hard drive. If the OS can see the 8GB partition then it should be able to see the other partition, and how the drive is hooked up wouldn't change that.

Which OS?

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vista
Apr 16, 2011 5:07AM PDT

its running vista home and the hard drive does not show up in bios but 8 gig of the 40 show up as the j drive

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Answer
Let's correct something quick.
Apr 16, 2011 4:56AM PDT

Partitions have no concept as to master and slave so that's not a factor here.

There are old partition schemes that are incompatible with such moves (to other machines) so let's pick from this forum's top post and try the Ubuntu boot CD (which requires no installation or learning of Linux.)
Bob